Friday Roundup (Late Edition)

Ahoy, readers! I’m back from my trip and should be back to regular blogging soon — but in the meantime, here’s one last roundup of prison/jail news items that have piled up during my travels, and that I won’t have a chance to blog about individually.

Add Arizona prisoners to the list of Americans who don’t have a regular health care provider, and so rack up taxpayer dollars by seeking routine care in the ER.And in more news of Arizona: worst idea ever?

Strange bedfellows alert — Ward Connerly on California (yes, that Ward Connerly): “The state (and the federal government) must enact permanent, front-end reforms that will reduce the flow of prisoners into the system. At the top of that list should be repeal of all mandatory-minimum-sentence laws, including the fatally flawed “three-strikes” law.”